Use location other than htdocs/xampp

[devuser]

I have a fresh install of 1.7.1. It works fine but I need to change the path to something other than htdocs/xampp. I've gone through all the docs and threads that I can find and tried them all but none have worked for one reason or another. I've spent a full eight hours on this problem today with nothing to show for it so I'm hoping someone knows the answer. I can't believe there isn't a simple way to make such a change, seeing all the problems others have had with it.

Anyway, all of my installed files, which were previously setup for EasyPhp, are located in E:/Programing/EasyPHP1-8/www. I changed

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header("Location: splash.php");

in xampp/htdocs/xampp/index.php to

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header("Location: E:/Programing/EasyPHP1-8/www");

, restarted apache and went to http://localhost/. I was redirected to http://localhost/xampp/.

Then I changed

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<Directory "E:/Programing/xampp/htdocs/xampp">

in xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf to

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<Directory "E:/Programing/EasyPHP1-8/www">

, restarted apache and went to http://localhost/. I was redirected to http://localhost/xampp/.

I tried a number of other things - I can't remember them all at this point - but none worked. If anyone has even a suggestion as to what to try next, please do so.

[dmphotography]

Change everything you've changed so far back to the default settings.
Open up xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf and search for the following lines:

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DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"

(or where ever you installed XAMPP)

and change it to

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DocumentRoot "E:/Programing/EasyPHP1-8/www"

Next in that same document, find

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<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">

and change it to

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<Directory "E:/Programing/EasyPHP1-8/www">

Save that file and close it out, then restart XAMPP.
It should work just fine for ya now.

[devuser]

Thank you very much. That fixed it.